Getting Data into AWS in 2026: Kinesis, DataSync, Transfer Family, and DMS
Getting data into AWS sounds straightforward until you’re actually doing it. The right approach for ingesting 50,000 IoT sensor events per second...
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GitLab vs GitHub in 2026: What Actually Matters for DevOps Teams
Every few months someone on my team asks whether we should migrate from GitLab to GitHub, or vice versa. In 2026 that...
Terraform Import in 2026: The Complete Guide Including the New import Block
Every infrastructure team hits this wall eventually. The AWS account already has hundreds of resources — VPCs, security groups, RDS clusters, S3...
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GitLab Runner Handbook [2026 Edition]
GitLab Runner is one of those tools that sits at the heart of GitLab CI/CD. It picks up the jobs you define...
Docker in 2026: Containers, BuildKit, and the Modern OCI Ecosystem
Containers are not new anymore. Docker turned twelve this year, and the developers who once called it revolutionary now just call it...
High Availability on AWS in 2026: Patterns That Actually Work
Every team building on AWS eventually asks the same question: how much availability is enough? “Five nines” (99.999%) sounds impressive — that’s...
GitLab CI Deploy to AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, ECS Fargate, and App Runner in 2026
I’ve been deploying to AWS from GitLab CI for years. The patterns have shifted. In 2021 the answer was almost always Elastic...
Testing in DevOps: Strategies That Actually Work in 2026
Most teams do not have a testing problem. They have a feedback-latency problem. Code gets written, pushed, and the first signal that...
AWS Direct Connect: A Deep Dive for the SAP-C02 Exam
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DevOps for Microservices: Enhancing Scalability in Startup Environments
Startups face a choice: build a monolith and tear it apart later, or start with microservices and add DevOps practices from day...
Harnessing the Flywheel Effect: Momentum-Building in the Age of Cloud Computing
Dr. Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com. He gives keynotes on cloud computing, distributed systems, and Amazon’s technology strategy....